Authorities Widen the Hunt for Suspected California Killer

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James Lee DiMaggio is wanted in the death of two people and the abduction of her teenage daughter.
Authorities have expanded the Amber Alert to Oregon and Washington as police searched for a Southern California man suspected of abducting a 16-year-old girl and wanted in the death of the girl's mother and possibly her 8-year-old brother.
Authorities have reported that there could have been a possible sighting of James Lee DiMaggio's blue Nissan Versa in northeast California close to Alturas on Wednesday. Later there was also a sighting around 50 miles along the same highway near Lakeview, in south-central Oregon. The police questioned the witnesses that might have seen the suspect.
The police believe DiMaggio could be trying to get to either Texas or Canada with 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and possibly her 8-year-old brother Ethan. Authorities are not sure, they told reporters that a charred body found along with the mother could be the boy.
Yesterday a friend of Hannah Anderson told authorites that DiMaggio told Hannah he really liked her and that he had a crush on her and would date her if they were both the same age.
DiMaggio told the girls he didn't want them to think he was really weird in an effort to defend himself after he noticed the girlsexchanged glances, 15-year-old Marissa Chavez said. She said DiMaggio was speaking to them while driving them home from a high school gymnastics event a couple months ago.
"She was a little creeped out by it. She didn't want to be alone with him," Chavez said. Chavez said Hannah Anderson asked that she would go with her from then on whenever DiMaggio drove her to meets.
On Sunday night, police found the body of 42-year-old Christina Anderson after the fire was put out at DiMaggio's rural home. They also discovered a child's body while going through rubble in Boulevard, a tiny town 65 miles east of San Diego on the U.S. and Mexico border.
"The child's body has not been identified but it may be Ethan", sheriff's Lt. Glenn Giannantonio said late Tuesday night.
Christopher Saincome, Christina Anderson's father said that DiMaggio was a friend of the Anderson family and that he often visited them at their apartment in Lakeside.
"He must have had this planned," Saincome said.
When DiMaggio's sister, Lora Robinson, was contacted by reporters she said that the allegations against her brother were "completely out of character." She said he spent four years in the Navy, left the service to care for her after their mother died of cancer, and volunteered rescuing animals. "He is the kindest person in the world," Robinson said.
 
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